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my whole unit, we all came back together. i was very lucky. when i got home i also had a completely average experience. i would say. and i'm not comfortable speaking for any particular veteran, everybody fought their own war. everybody saw something different. everybody reacts to it differently. my personal experience i had trouble thinking about anything other than grief, than thinking about the fear. the fear and the grief were as much about what kind of person am i, that came home, as fear of being in any particular surrounding. i knew i was safe in my head. i gist didn't know i was safe in my gut. so, how to kind of process that and deal with it. part of the grief is you come home and i got out of the military. i only did eight years, but your friends go back and just becausor war is over, doesn't mean they're war is over. so you worry for them, and you're helpless. on wednesday i was at the pentagon. i was lucky enough to be there when a colleague of mine, technical sergeant joe, got a silver star for his actions in afghanistan. he was cl
my whole unit, we all came back together. i was very lucky. when i got home i also had a completely average experience. i would say. and i'm not comfortable speaking for any particular veteran, everybody fought their own war. everybody saw something different. everybody reacts to it differently. my personal experience i had trouble thinking about anything other than grief, than thinking about the fear. the fear and the grief were as much about what kind of person am i, that came home, as fear...
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to get at them itself when the united states was puzzling over its resurgence in afghanistan as a military challenge that had been neglected in the years after the 2001 arab emirates that it presented itself as a grave dilemma to the obamacare administration so we try to provide the regularity about this phenomenon recognizing the cliche image of the of one i aid malaya and his band of fanatics was inaccurate and falsified the problem. said not to prosecute a particular view of the taliban but look at its diversity and aspects of the character fetter not part of american debate to. i am really proud of this book and peter whose leadership from new america has been a joy in my office to support him and watch him. the last thing i want to talk -- that i want to say is with the research is part of a much broader body of work that we engaged in it and hope your subscribers and readers as you are with foreign policy with conferences and publications, anyway we are pleased to have this occasion and have a discussion about the subjects that are in the book for foreign policy. [applause] >> thank
to get at them itself when the united states was puzzling over its resurgence in afghanistan as a military challenge that had been neglected in the years after the 2001 arab emirates that it presented itself as a grave dilemma to the obamacare administration so we try to provide the regularity about this phenomenon recognizing the cliche image of the of one i aid malaya and his band of fanatics was inaccurate and falsified the problem. said not to prosecute a particular view of the taliban but...
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is a work in study, come to the united states. this is not some generally anti-we hate america, they're bad, they are good. it's very much related to the presence of drones and the military policy of the united states in the area. so while hating the drones above them, the people of fatah would welcome the chance to have the ground of america leave. as i said, the poll details are set forth in the book. i'll just take another minute or two to outline what i found that which is kind of complement to avoid anand talked about, about the taliban and this is, in my book, based on my interviews with taliban leaders and foot soldiers. and the role of mullah omar. according to the taliban leaders and fighters i interviewed, the seminal event of securing and establishing mullah omar's authority, the undisputed leader of the taliban occurred apri april 1996 in kandahar, southern afghanistan. there, mullah omar war, took from a religious shrine, the holy relic of the cloak of the prophet muhammad. simply by standing in the hold the cloaks pr
is a work in study, come to the united states. this is not some generally anti-we hate america, they're bad, they are good. it's very much related to the presence of drones and the military policy of the united states in the area. so while hating the drones above them, the people of fatah would welcome the chance to have the ground of america leave. as i said, the poll details are set forth in the book. i'll just take another minute or two to outline what i found that which is kind of...
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weaver, tell us about your book to it is about my family's emigration to the united states. we settled in alabama right on the time in history where civild rights was pretty dramatic. in >> where do you live now? >> i live in tuscaloosa which is 60 miles up the road. more r almost another more recent my century that my small hometown. >> and your book, "darkroom" is erth about these experiences that yod had. h i want to start about your father. what did he do for living inacks what was hiso experience like? >> my father was a teacher and yet a background also in thehe e ministry. th and he was an amateur photographer that did some freelance work. not placed centrally in my book. >> i wanted to ask about his cr, ministering.and you he had been assigned to some as churches and you're right abouti that in here. what was his experience? >> well, before i was born, inme 1948, my father came to the united states and he studied ath a seminary in new orleans. and hed went around where he encountered two schweizspok segregation even in the church. >> at one time he spoke at a black c
weaver, tell us about your book to it is about my family's emigration to the united states. we settled in alabama right on the time in history where civild rights was pretty dramatic. in >> where do you live now? >> i live in tuscaloosa which is 60 miles up the road. more r almost another more recent my century that my small hometown. >> and your book, "darkroom" is erth about these experiences that yod had. h i want to start about your father. what did he do for...
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the first was -- it came from united states supreme court and i think no person in the united states that i can think of has benefited more from the supreme court then karl rove. two decisions. one in 2000 obviously was washed the gore which put his candidate in the white house and two, in 2010, citizens united decision. that opened the floodgates for contributions, unlimited contributions and in many cases from secret sources with no transparency whatsoever that is just unprecedented in history. the second thing that happened was running the republican party and it kind of ran into a ditch. he couldn't raise a dime and early in 2010 you may recall there was a revelation in los angeles that they republican national committee had been entertaining its donors at a strip club. and for the party of family values, this did not work too well so they could not raise a time. this gave wrote his opening, so in april he had a luncheon at his house in washington d.c. at weaver terrace. it was cohosted by ed gillespie, a former chair of the rnc, and they had about two dozen people over and came
the first was -- it came from united states supreme court and i think no person in the united states that i can think of has benefited more from the supreme court then karl rove. two decisions. one in 2000 obviously was washed the gore which put his candidate in the white house and two, in 2010, citizens united decision. that opened the floodgates for contributions, unlimited contributions and in many cases from secret sources with no transparency whatsoever that is just unprecedented in...
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group of researchers to try to get at some of the diversity of the taliban itself at a time when the united states was really puzzling over its resurgence as a movement, as a political force in afghanistan, as a military challenge, and really a challenge that had been neglected in the years after the 2001 defeat of the islamic emirates of afghanistan in which revived and presented itself as a really grave dilemma to the obama administration as it arrived in 2009. and so our effort was to do what think tanks do which is just to try to provide some ground truth and some complexity and granularity about this phenomenon, recognizing that the sort of clicheed iml imagine of a one-eyed mullah and his band of devoted and intractable fanatics was inadequate and really a falsifying of the problem. so the purpose was not to prosecute a particular view of the taliban, but just to start to document some sections of its diversity and some aspects of its character that were otherwise, um, not part of american debate or discourse. so i'm really, really proud of this book and of peter particularly whose le
group of researchers to try to get at some of the diversity of the taliban itself at a time when the united states was really puzzling over its resurgence as a movement, as a political force in afghanistan, as a military challenge, and really a challenge that had been neglected in the years after the 2001 defeat of the islamic emirates of afghanistan in which revived and presented itself as a really grave dilemma to the obama administration as it arrived in 2009. and so our effort was to do...